The Victoria's Secret parent company recently murmured the possibility of getting rid of their flailing Express/Limited clothing stores after a spate of poor performances, but keeping the wildly successful lingerie/skin care lines. I don't understand how any chick shops at Victoria's Secret, no offense to my dear friend who must have suffered dearly to give me an abfab birthday present. Guys, you're stuck. You gotta go there for the once-a-year obligatory purchase. How are you chicks shopping there _all the time_? The stores are a mess, the lines are long, the available sizes are alternately gigantic stick figure or gigantic blow up doll, they're constantly out of stock on things they should have (like their house brand panty hose or bras), their quality sucks (the first washing of their primo brand bra crumpled the padding like a piece of paper and basically ruined it; subsequent replacements did the same thing), the staff is either permafrost or permadumb, and that's just from the memory of a year ago. Indelible though it is, since it was my experience every other goddamn time I went there to try to get just the simplest thing! And by the way, their perfume reeks! Maybe they waft the air with opium fumes, how else to explain anyone tolerating this lingerie trainwreck otherwise. My undies are off to Nordies, as usual, they always have my size and the staff might be a little dim sometimes but they always, always try hard.